Ex-trafficker: “Legalization wouldn’t have put me out of business” (audio)

Washington resident Scott Johnson is getting ready to spend five years in prison for growing and trafficking marijuana. But ex-trafficker Johnson, who used to grow pot and ship it across the country in a loaded RV, doesn’t think Washington’s soon-to-start legal recreational marijuana sales would have damaged his business, according to a new NPR report.

“Legalization wouldn’t have put me out of business,” Johnson told NPR program Here & Now. “It’s not going to put anyone that’s been doing this for a while out of business.”

Ricardo Baca is a contributing editor for The Cannabist. He was appointed The Denver Post's first marijuana editor in November 2013 and spearheaded the formation of The Cannabist, a division of the Post. Fortune magazine ranked Baca as one of the...